Alaska elections in 2026
3 electoral votes · 1 House seat · Pacific · 2 statewide races on the 2026 ballot
Alaska US Senate: D 48.0 to R 52.0, lean Republican, well sourced. Alaska Senate Race Heats Up With Ranked-Choice Voting and Two Sullivans on the Ballot
Alaska Governor: D 47.0 to R 49.0, tossup Republican, well sourced. Democratic Consolidation and Republican Splits Shape Alaska Ranked-Choice Race
House delegation as simulated: 0 D, 1 R, 0 tossups of 1 district swept.
Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Alaska board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.
How Alaska votes
Alaska's elections are shaped by oil and gas revenue, fisheries, Native communities, and the practical distances of a state without a road to most of itself. Its ranked-choice system and independent streak make statewide races harder to call than its overall lean suggests.
Its largest population centers include Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.
On the ballot in Alaska
Election day is November 3, 2026. Alaska has 2 statewide races and 1 House seat on the ballot.
Statewide races
House districts
Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the boroughs and census areas inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.
- Alaska at-large: Aleutians East, Aleutians West, Anchorage, Bethel, Bristol Bay, Denali, Dillingham, Fairbanks North Star and 21 more boroughs and census areas (29 in all)
Find your exact districts
Your address goes to the U.S. Census Bureau's public geocoder to find your districts. It is not stored, and no AI sees it.
Which district am I in? Alaska districts by borough or census area
House districts follow population, not borough lines, so a single borough can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each borough is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your borough appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.
Before you vote in Alaska
Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and the Alaska Division of Elections publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.
The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Alaska ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.
Local races
Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Alaska ballots, and they vary block by block. The Alaska Division of Elections publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.
Alaska's weight in Washington
Alaska carries 3 electoral votes, which ranks it 45 of 51 by that measure, and sends 1 voting member to the House.
That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Alaska is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.
How Alaska is represented
Alaska is one of the states small enough to elect a single at-large representative, so one person carries the whole state's voice in the House while two senators carry equal weight to those of California. That asymmetry is the deliberate design of the chamber, and it means a voter here has considerably more influence per head in the Senate than a voter in a large state.
Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Alaska carries 3 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the boroughs and census areas the boundary files place inside each one.
Issues that weigh heavily in Alaska
Based on the state's industry mix, geography and cost of living, these issues tend to carry structural weight in Alaska elections:
Latest Alaska political headlines
Poll shows Democrat with lead in Alaska governor’s race, but large swaths remain undecidedAlaska governor’s race shifts to toss-up: Cook Political ReportReport used to justify reinstatement of Alaska Republican governor candidate appears flawedAlaska Governor Moves from Lean Republican to Toss UpAngry Outbursts, Slurs and Firings: Tumult Rocks a Key Senate CampaignAARP Poll: Peltola Leads Sullivan in Alaska Senate RaceOpinion: Alaska’s election system worked even when it didn’t work for usAlaska - Oil, Fishing, TourismSimulate Alaska
In the Electorate HQ simulator, Alaska is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.
Analysis covering Alaska
Two things this site gets wrong about Connecticut and Alaska
A standing corrections note. Our Connecticut county names are decades out of date, and Alaska's at-large district is missing a census area it must contain.
One seat covers 34 square kilometres. One seat covers 1,713,379.
New York's 12th and Alaska's at-large seat each elect one member of the House. On the ground, one is fifty thousand times the size of the other.
Six states have exactly one representative, and they are not alike
Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming each elect a single at-large member. The largest is 266 times the smallest.